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Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, River Of Dreams in '93.
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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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